- From: David Oliver <david@doliver.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:57:12 +0100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Thanks for the clarification David - have got it sorted now. The W3C validator still isn't showing it as XHTML5 (whereas other validators are), and XHTML5 doesn't appear to be in its dropdown either. On 26/02/10 13:28, David Dorward wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2010, at 11:11, David Oliver wrote: > >> Validating http://project-start.doliver.co.uk/ >> Error [html5]: " >> Line 5, Column 67: Bad value content-type for attribute http-equiv on XHTML element meta. >> >> …v="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml"/> >> " >> >> My document isn't recognised as XHTML5 but, instead, as HTML5. > > > To paraphrase the spec: > > "If you use http-equiv="content-type", then it must be text/html and may include a character encoding. You must not use this if you are writing an XML document." > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#attr-meta-http-equiv-content-type > > So the error is right, that is a bad value for the element. I don't know if the checker does XHTML5 checking - to test that you could create an HTML5 document that isn't well formed XHTML (e.g. with a<br> (and not a<br/> or</br>)) and serve it as application/xhtml+xml. >
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